One-minute World 03/22/19

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Hello, I'm Karen Giannone, this is BBC World News, the headlines. Britain's Prime Minister's heading for Brussels today to meet EU leaders and make a formal request to delay Brexit for three months.

She wants the time to try to persuade the British Parliament to back her deal having already rejected it twice. New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a ban on the sale of assault rifles and semi-automatics in response to the Christchurch Mosque attacks in which fifty people were killed.

Rescue teams are still struggling to reach survivors a week after cyclone Idai hit southeastern Africa. Aid workers say thousands are still desperate for help.

At least 300 people are thought to have died. Police in Italy are questioning a Senegalese man who set fire to a bus he was driving with 51 children on board.

All of the children escaped without serious injury. The driver reportedly shouted he wanted to stop migrants dying in the Mediterranean Sea.

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